In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.
#18 From El Envuelto Divino Series. Limited edition photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose Sierra work is deeply influenced by themes of self-representation and a homoerotic gaze. Through his unique aesthetic, he creates abject staged environments that challenge tradi...
Archival Pigment, Color
$5,000
Of course we all wanted to look like Peggy Castle at the Wagons West Party, 2015
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American
By Emily Cheng
Located in Surfside, FL
This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cub...
Photographic Paper, C Print
Generation A
By Julia Beyer
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Generation A’, 2017, 20 x 24,3 cm, edition 2/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid collage with superimposed transparency. Numbered and signed on the back by the artist. A piece f...
C Print, Polaroid
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Berlin, Germany, architectural library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre Berlin Germany 2019 60 x 75 inches 152.4 x 190,3 cm Edition of 7 signed and numbered on label, verso In Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Reinhard Gör...
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner, Sainte Geneviève II Library, Paris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Sainte Geneviève II Library Paris, France 62.5" x 50" Edition of 10 $6,000 75" x 60" Edition of 7 $9,000 87.5" x 70" Edition of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on l...
Lambda
The Sorcerers Apprentice
By Julia Beyer
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'The Sorcerers Apprentice’, 2017, 24 x 20 cm, edition of 2/10, Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid, Numbered and signed on the back by the artist. Not mounted. A piece from T...
C Print, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
$1,713
Notre Dame 12 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Large Format Polaroid, Paris, Icons
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Notre Dame 12 (Paris) - available Editions 1, 2, 3 of 10 + 2AP. Archival Pigment Print, photographed with a super-large Polaroid 20x24 camera in Paris in 2015, 90x58cm, not mounted. ...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
#1 La Piedra Sustituta Series. Limited Edition Color photograph
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Showing a body that is hidden is the aesthetic apology for the insane judgment that the artist himself has taken as an excuse for not being 'pointed at' or rather as self-pointing. T...
Archival Pigment, Color
Notre Dame 7 - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Paris, Icons
By xulong zhang
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Notre Dame 7' 2010, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival Pigment Print, based on a Polaroid 810 transfer process, 20x27.3cm, not mounted, Signed, embossed stamp and artist c...
Color, Polaroid, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Berlin, Germany, architectural library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre Berlin Germany 2019 70 x 87.5 inches 177,8 x 222 cm Edition of 5 signed and numbered on label, verso In Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Reinhard Gör...
C Print, Lambda
$11,000
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre IV, Berlin, Germany, architectural library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre IV Berlin Germany 2019 50 x 75 inches 127 x 190,5 cm Edition of 7 signed and numbered on label, verso In Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre IV, Reinhard...
C Print, Lambda
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print) This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″. Mus...
C Print
Miami Inspired Art Deco Still Life, Studio54, Pastel Tones Disco Lights, Purple
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Sexy Miami Futuristic Cocktail Lounge" is a series of photographs by Ryan Rivadeneyra inspired by the Art Deco colors of Miami that show beautiful objects and textures arranged meti...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper, C Print, Digital, G...
$2,000
Untitled V. La Costilla Roja Series. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude
By Jose Sierra
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This work is the result of an artistic residence outside his 'study'.The artist worked on a different ecosystem, a house of vernacular architecture built in 1913 in the department of...
Archival Pigment, Color
Birds, Cibachrome Photograph Print, Signed Conceptual Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a proof print. signed and marked bat (for bon a tirer or good to print) This is a single print from 1998 Birds. Suite of eight Cibachromes. Edition of fifteen. 10″ × 10″. Mus...
C Print
First Person III, Signed Conceptual Chromogenic Print by Anne Collier
By Anne Collier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anne Collier produces sparse still lifes of found objects using a technique of re-photography that is informed as much by West Coast conceptual art practices as by product photograph...
Black and White, Photography
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-) Lithograph, Mixed media From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs. This sale is of one print not t...
Mixed Media, Lithograph
My dreams came true the day I did hair for a fashion show, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
First Person I, Signed Conceptual Chromogenic Print by Anne Collier
By Anne Collier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anne Collier produces sparse still lifes of found objects using a technique of re-photography that is informed as much by West Coast conceptual art practices as by product photograph...
Black and White, Photography
Fresh Paintings 274, Signed Conceptual Chromogenic Print by Niko Luoma
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fresh Paintings 274 by Niko Luoma (1970) Date: 2004 Chromogenic Print with Diasec, signed in pen on verso Edition of 1/3, 2 AP's Size: 39.25 x 49.25 in. (99.7 x 125.1 cm)
Digital
Palm Springs 1
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
Photogram
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-) Lithograph, Mixed media From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs. This sale is of one print not t...
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Central Park 7, Signed Contemporary Color Chromogenic Print by Sally Gall
By Sally Gall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sally Gall photographs the natural world, using her keen eye for composition to create abstractions of familiar subjects. “For forty years I have photographed the beauty and mystery...
Photography
Riggs Library I, Washington DC
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library Washington DC 57 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 68 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 79.8 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed...
C Print, Lambda
The Long Room V, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 60 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 50 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 60 x 90 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photogra...
C Print, Lambda
David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open, limited edition by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of an alternative shot from the cover shoot for Aladdin Sane by David Bowie from the official Duffy Archive. This official Duffy Archive print is avail...
Archival Pigment
Palm Springs 8
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create imagined landscapes. The illustrations used in the series are based on reference shots I took in Palm Springs...
Photogram
$3,200
Braunschweig 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Braunschweig 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed Ideas of home and dislocation have always been compelling to me as the child of immigrant parents who...
Archival Pigment
Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Compass Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin, Gerlovina
By Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin Compass, 1988 Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker 12.5 h × 12.5w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6...
Metal
Boston Public Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boston Public Library 55.4 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 66.5 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 77.6 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbere...
C Print, Lambda
$1,850
"Untitled 1.15" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.15" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...
Digital Pigment
Bapst Library, Boston
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bapst Library Boston 50 x 62.4 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 74.9 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.4 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to...
C Print, Lambda
When he was a baby, 2011
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Berlin, Germany, architectural library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre Berlin Germany 2019 50,0 x 62,5 inches 127 x 158,5 cm Edition of 10 signed and numbered on label, verso In Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Reinhard ...
C Print, Lambda
Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A breathtaking homage to the grandeur of knowledge, Reinhard Görner’s Shining Wall of Books captures the luminous beauty of one of the world’s most revered libraries. This masterfull...
C Print, Lambda
When I posed for a camera club, 2012
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
Isaac Newton, Cambridge, England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale interior architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the bust of Sir Isaac Newton in the Trinity College librar...
C Print, Lambda
Laocoon II, Grimani Palace, Venice, German Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Laocoon II Grimani Palace, Venice 2014 A masterful composition by renowned German photographer Reinhard Görner, Laocoon II captures the grandeur of Venetian architecture in exquisit...
Lambda
Reinhard Görner, Salle Labrouste Library, Paris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Salle Labrouste Library Paris, France 50" x 62.5" Edition of 10 $6,000 60" x 75" Edition of 7 $9,000 70" x 87.5" Edition of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label...
Lambda
Riggs Library, Washington DC
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riggs Library Washington DC 50 x 56.7 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 68 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 79.4 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on...
C Print, Lambda
Morgan Library II, New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library II New York 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed n Morgan Library II, Rein...
C Print, Lambda
Duke Humfrey's Library I, Oxford, England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Duke Humfrey's Library I 54.2 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 65.1 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 75.9 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimme...
C Print, Lambda
Line Up, Set of 8 Photographs by Ligoranoreese
By Ligoranoreese
Located in Long Island City, NY
This portfolio of eight prints by the art duo, Ligorano/Reese portrays leaders from the Bush administration, photographed in a mug shot style. The date on the placard they hold is the date the artists feel they betrayed the public trust. This work is a bold statement on politicians and their duty to the public, and the ramifications of abusing their power. Three of the prints are already framed in black frames that measure 16 x 22 inches. Artist: LigoranoResse (a.k.a. Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese) Title: Line Up Date: 2005 Medium: Eight Archival Pigment Prints, each signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 18/50 Image Size: 9 x 14.75 inches Paper Size: 11 x 17...
Archival Pigment
$4,700
DETAIL FROM: Self Portrait with Velvet Cap and Gown with Fur Collar, Rembrandt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DETAIL FROM: SELFPORTRAIT WITH VELVET CAP AND GOWN WITH FUR COLLAR, 2008 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, 1634 PAINTING GALLERY BERLIN A masterful reinterpretation by renowned photographer Reinh...
Lambda
The Swan, With Leda (Limited Edition of 25) - 30x40 In Fine Art Print
Located in New York, NY
This 2009 photograph by legend photographer, John Stoddart depicts “The Swan with Leda.” It was inspired from the mythology of the Greek story of Leda and the Swan, when the God Zeus...
Silver Gelatin
Jeff Becker, Flag Privacy, 2016, Archival Paper, Inkjet Paper
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
Archival Paper, Inkjet
$4,800
David Bowie Scary Monsters Clown full contact sheet large format print by Duffy
By Brian Duffy
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art, limited edition contact sheet print of David Bowie in the Scary Monsters Clown costume from the official Duffy Archive. Taken from the original 1980 negativ...
Archival Pigment
$14,000
Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid 2017 59 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 71 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 83 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Internal Keywords: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Madrid, Spain, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, Spanish Libraries, Spanish Monuments, Library Photography...
C Print, Lambda
Stock Pages (The New Antiquity), Signed Chromogenic Print by Tim Davis
By Tim Davis
Located in Long Island City, NY
Provenance: Greenberg Van Doren Gallery Stock Pages (The New Antiquity) by Tim Davis, 1969 – Date: 2009 Medium: Chromogenic Print, signed in pen on verso Edition: 1/6, 2 AP's Size: ...
C Print
Reinhard Görner 'Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid 2017 55 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 66 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 77 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to the image: actual image size listed Internal Search: Reinhard Görner, Library series, Madrid, Spain, Large-Scale Photography, Large-scale German photography, Spanish Libraries...
C Print, Lambda
Greek Temple, Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Greek Temple, Pergamon-Museum, Berlin 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner, with his large format photographs orchestrates the monumentality of historical architecture, gardens, and masterpieces. An active architecture photographer since 1985, is a master of perspectives and precise spatial compositions, and he thus considers classical sculpture, in all of its possible facets, a special challenge. "Görner’s photographs sometimes open the doors to another world and take the viewer with them on a journey through time. Here the palace is no longer a museum but both royal residence and a site steeped in history. The viewer does not have to share the halls with the masses of visitors; instead the images offer him exclusive impressions of the Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles) as even the king of France was probably never granted. The halls are empty of people, yet they seem to be able to unfurl their individual characters of their own accord. These places practically breathe history, and this aspect is also part of the essence captured in the photographs. King Wilhelm of Prussia was named German Emperor Wilhelm...
Lambda
Vintage Large Format Avant Garde Polaroid 20X24 Photograph
By György Kepes
Located in Surfside, FL
Sorry for the reflection on the plexi. In the early 1980s, the Polaroid Foundation invited Hungarian-born painter and photographer György Kepes (1906-2001) to use the 20x24 Polaroid ...
Polaroid
Cadenza by Gina Soden, Photographer, Photography, Documentary
By Gina Soden
Located in Deddington, GB
Cadenza by Gina Soden [2013] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 5 Image size: H:87.5 cm x W:70 cm Complete Size of Unfra...
Paper, Digital Pigment
Morgan Library II, New York
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Morgan Library II New York 50 x 62.4 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 74.9 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trim...
C Print, Lambda
Biblioteca del Duca D'Aumale Terrasini
Located in New York, NY
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his architectural subject matter allows him to control the composition of his image. For many years he has photographed ...
C Print
$9,500
Vintage Ektacolor Color Photograph Untitled Memory Projection Photo Shimon Attie
By Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
Shimon Attie (American, b. 1957), Untitled Memory (Projection of Marsha A.) Ektacolor photograph, 1998, from the Untitled Memory series, Gallery label to verso, Jack Shainman Galle...
Color
Hashish, Palestine Large Mixed Media Conceptual Abstract Painting
By Dennis Balk
Located in Surfside, FL
From his show Hashish at Michael Steinberg Gallery (bearing their label verso) Reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times. Abstract Expressionism meets graffiti photography. Cy ...
Canvas, Ink
Qana, Palestine Large Mixed Media Conceptual Abstract Painting
By Dennis Balk
Located in Surfside, FL
From his show Hashish at Michael Steinberg Gallery (bearing their label verso) Reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times. Abstract Expressionism meets graffiti photography. Cy ...
Canvas, Ink
Faith Thumbnail H Large Mixed Media Conceptual Abstract Painting
By Dennis Balk
Located in Surfside, FL
From his show Hashish at Michael Steinberg Gallery (bearing their label verso) Reviewed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times. Abstract Expressionism meets graffiti photography. Cy ...
Canvas, Ink